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New drug test is up to 1000x more sensitive

esearchers at the University of Arlington in Texas believe they have found a simple, yet incredibly effective way to improve the standard "mass spectrometry" testing commonly used to drug test athletes.

The research, first reported at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, allows for urine tests to be made several magnitudes more sensitive to the presence of PED metabolites by improving on mass spectrometry testing.

The new method, called paired ion electrospray ionization, or PIESE, works to combine the metabolites together, making their signature larger and more easily detected. The technique has been demonstrated to be sensitive enough to detect one part per billion of PED metabolites in urine, which is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than existing methods.

According to quotes obtained by the BBC, the method could potentially even detect parts per trillion. As it relates to steroids, it is roughly 100 times more sensitive than existing methods. Even so, this will significantly increase the detection window for catching steroid users.

Apparently this new method only requires adding a single inexpensive, commercially available ingredient to existing MS testing setups, which should render it a very cost-effective method of improving PED testing. This is especially important in MMA as most commissions do not have the funds for regular blood testing, let alone a new testing protocol. This discovery should significantly increase the window in which PED use can be detected.

If this new method is able to increase the detection time for the most abused steroids from weeks until months, which the research seems to suggest could be possible, the concept of cycling during a camp before a fight could become significantly more difficult to get away with.

the WADA, the USADA and the IOC have not yet been in touch with the researchers

...unless GSP had been juicing all along, and simply took this layoff to get 100% clean.

rh

All manner of men came to work for the News: everything from wild young Turks who wanted to rip the world in half and start all over again -- to tired, beer-bellied old hacks who wanted nothing more than to live out their days in peace before a bunch of lunatics ripped the world in half.

...unless GSP had been juicing all along, and simply took this layoff to get 100% clean.

rh

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this.

This has always been my speculation, but I did not want to be the first to throw it out.

Gsp has been accused of juicing by a good amount of people. I feel his encounter with Johny was the final straw where he finally had his back to the wall with the whole WADA vs VADA. Gsp wanted VADA even though it would have been the unofficial testing. WADA is supposedly the toughest test to pass which is what Johny wanted to take.

The whole time GSP is supposedly retired, I keep reading a new interview from him every week regarding drug testing. What I took away from it was comparable of how a criminal would stay away from the limelight until everything blew over.

I doubt this is true, he was so adament about the VADA testing and to me he quite frankly doesn't have the look.

because it's not the toughest test out there and it is unofficial. Regardless of what would have happened with the VADA testing, the results would have had no bearing on his fight with Johny at all. Johny wanted the toughest test, which is WADA, but GSP didn't want that.

because it's not the toughest test out there and it is unofficial. Regardless of what would have happened with the VADA testing, the results would have had no bearing on his fight with Johny at all. Johny wanted the toughest test, which is WADA, but GSP didn't want that.

Oh really? I was unaware of that. Still, GSP obviously passed his next drug test so why would he take time off to cycle off? If he was doing anything he would have been caught after his last fight. Unless he had some inside information that this testing was to be implemented. Then that would make perfect sense.